The relationships between energy and development are complex, compounded by increasingly differentiated situations amongst developing countries and within them. Moreover, the manner in which energy services are realised has consequences…
Energy Pathways in Low Carbon Development: from Technology Transfer to Socio-technical Transformation
Innovation, Sustainability, Development and Social Inclusion: Lessons from Latin America
This paper is one of a series of working papers relating regional experiences to ideas proposed by the New Manifesto, following on round table discussions held in Venezuela, Argentina, and…
Beyond Scaling Up: Pathways to Universal Access to Health Services
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Understanding Peri-urban Sustainability: The role of the resilience approach
Resilience is a term that is widely used by scholars from different disciplines who promote action research between science and policy. This paper is largely concerned with how resilience approaches…
The Dynamics and Sustainability of Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS): Mapping Challenges and Pathways
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) represents a radical alternative to conventional top-down approaches to sanitation and offers hope of achieving the Millennium Development Goals. In contrast to state-led initiatives to improve…
Trends in the Global Distribution of R&D since the 1970s: Data, their Interpretation and Limitations
The 1970 ‘Sussex Manifesto’ was one of the earliest global policy reports to use statistical data about R&D that were starting to become available on an internationally comparable basis, though…
Science and Technology for Health: Towards Universal Access in a Changing World
Most anti-colonial movements in the second half of the 20th Century promised to provide universal access to health services. The Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 presented a consensus view of…
The Original ‘Sussex Manifesto’: Its Past and Future Relevance
The original “Sussex Manifesto” called for radical change in international debate and action about harnessing science and technology to development. It challenged the commonly accepted global division of labour in…
Reforming the Global Food and Agriculture System: Towards a Questioning Agenda for the New Manifesto
In the face of the pressing challenges posed by hunger, malnutrition and the vulnerability of our food system, it is imperative that radical reforms to the food system are articulated…
Silver Bullets, Grand Challenges and the New Philanthropy
Whether generic ‘silver bullet’ solutions can address complex development problems has been debated for many years. The ‘grand challenge’ extends the idea of the silver bullet in ways that speak…